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ISTQB® Certified Tester Agile Test Leadership at Scale (CT-ATLaS)

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ISTQB® Certified Tester Agile Test Leadership at Scale (CT-ATLaS)

The ISTQB® Agile Test Leadership at Scale (CT-ATLaS) certification focuses on how to organize and improve quality and testing across multiple teams in an agile organization. It also covers how to approach quality and testing at a strategic level to achieve higher business agility in an organization. CT-ATLaS covers how to scale testing and quality assurance efforts by fostering a quality mindset and culture across the organization. This includes shifting from a traditional test management approach typically used in sequential development models to a quality assistance approach that builds on Lean and Agile principles and values. It also includes how to adopt common Lean and Agile techniques and processes for analyzing and solving problems and how to use them to improve testing and quality in the organization.

The ISTQB® Agile Test Leadership at Scale (CT-ATLaS) syllabus addresses the key aspects of test leadership across five chapters:

Chapter 1 Quality Assistance

Chapter 1 introduces quality assistance as an approach to quality management that is crucial to developing and sustaining a value-driven organization. It covers how quality assistance as an approach fits with known software testing concepts such as test management, quality control, and quality assurance. Agile Test Leadership at Scale focuses on enabling others in the organization to perform quality and testing responsibilities to foster a quality mindset and culture on an organizational level. Chapter 1 emphasizes four important skills to build competencies and scale quality and testing in an organization.

Chapter 2 Improve Quality and Flow in a Value-Driven Organization

Chapter 2 establishes methods to facilitate the identification and optimization of development and operational value streams. It also describes what a Value Stream is, the notation used to create a Value Stream Map, and why it is essential to understand the concepts and thinking behind this Lean methodology. The chapter continues with how to analyze a Value stream from a quality and testing perspective including suggestions for key metrics. Lastly, it highlights the importance of eliminating waste as a means to improving Quality and Flow in a Value-Driven Organization.

Chapter 3 Continuous Improvement of Quality and Testing

Chapter 3 builds on the improvement methods established in Chapter 2 but also expands on techniques to support the consistent and sustainable solving of problems. It explores approaches like the PDCA cycle to achieve these objectives and instills an improvement culture in an organization. The chapter introduces systems thinking and root cause analysis as approaches to identifying causes of quality and testing issues in value streams. It also covers the technique of causal loop diagram. Lastly, chapter 3 expands on understanding problem-solving techniques and their consistent application across an organization.

Chapter 4 Organizational Test Strategy in a Value-Driven Organization

Chapter 4 establishes an Organizational Test Strategy introduces practices supporting DevOps and explains the importance of incorporating them into the organizational test strategy. At its core, it aims to provide guidance on how a value-driven organization may create and implement an organizational test strategy, and also how to validate if the testing aligns with the core business and technical needs by using assessment techniques. It also explores how an Agile Test Leadership fits into a value-driven organization while highlighting a different set of responsibilities that come into play.

Chapter 5 Test Processes in a Value-Driven Organization

This chapter is devoted to the analysis of test processes in a Value-Driven Organization and enables the participant to analyze challenges specific to testing in the context of agile at-scale product development. Chapter 5 also covers agile at-scale practices that help coordinate test efforts across agile and non-agile teams. It also defines related test and flow metrics establishing transparency for stakeholders. Part of the chapter is also focused on the analysis of test activities and test processes that are important to fit business agility using a quality assistance approach. Lastly, chapter 5 introduces and expands on which test activities should be performed by stream-aligned teams and which should be performed by specialized service teams.

How do I obtain this certification?

To be certified you must pass the ISTQB® Agile Test Leadership at Scale (CT-ATLaS) exam.

You can prepare for the exam by attending an accredited training course for ISTQB® Certified Tester Agile Test Leadership at Scale (CT-ATLaS); participants will have relevant content and topics clearly explained and taught to them. The curriculum includes all the important topics in the field of Agile Test Leadership at Scale:

  • Quality Assistance
  • Improve Quality and Flow in a Value-Driven Organization
  • Continuous Improvement of Quality and Testing
  • Organizational Test Strategy in a Value-Driven Organization
  • Test Processes in a Value-Driven Organization

You can also test your knowledge without obligation and free of charge before taking the exam by CT-ATLaS online mock exam.

What are the entry requirements?

To take the ISTQB® Agile Test Leadership at Scale (CT-ATLaS) exam, you must hold either a valid ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level Certificate 4.0 (CTFL 4.0) certification OR a valid Certified Tester Foundation Level certificate prior to the CTFL 4.0 plus a valid ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level Agile Tester certificate and have sufficient practical experience.

How does this certification benefit me?

With the ISTQB® Agile Test Leadership at Scale (CT-ATLaS):

  • You will have an independent, internationally recognized certification as proof of expertise in the field of organizing and improving quality and testing at a strategic level.
  • You will learn how to foster a value-driven quality mindset and culture.
  • You will be able to Co-create and implement an organizational test strategy that develops quality and testing capabilities.
  • You will be able to Continuously improve test processes at an organizational level addressing test challenges in the context of Agile at-scale product development.

Who is this certification for?

The ISTQB® Agile Test Leadership at Scale (CT-ATLaS) is aimed at professionals working in an organization that is pursuing business agility at scale and already has a basic understanding of agile and testing in an agile environment. This includes both people in testing roles as well as people in other roles throughout the organization who are responsible for quality, i.e., members of agile teams, leaders of agile team(s), project managers, scrum masters, etc.

This certification will be a great benefit for people working in roles such as:

  • Test Manager
  • Head of Testing
  • Test Analyst
  • Quality Engineer
  • Quality Assurance
  • Quality Coach
  • Member of an Agile Team
  • Member of the leader group of multiple Agile Teams
  • Project Manager
  • Release Train Engineer
  • Scrum Master

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Data sheet

Certification scheme
ISTQB® - International Software Testing Qualifications Board
Number of questions
40
Minimum Score
65.00 %
Examination Time
120 min
Requirements
Product Type
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in-person Training
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